After a long wait 4.0.4 is finally out for the Galaxy Nexus.I wanted to do a fresh install. I saved some important stuff using Titanium Backup, but I then needed to backup my data that shows under /sdcard.

After fighting with broken MTP on Ubuntu and even on Windows, I ended up doing a partition image using the dd command on an USB stick connected with an OTG cable:

I decided to move all my word processing on Google Documents, but I had to withdraw that decision.
I have two critical issues with text documents. The first being the inability to number my heading in text documents. There was a solution in the old Google Documents editor by editing the CSS of the documents. A feature that doesn’t exist anymore, and which is, according to Google, impossible to add back.

The second is that I can’t setup a different heading and footer for te first page of a Goggle document.

It is crazy that Google hasn’t implemented such features! Their support forum is full of message concerning those missing features, and the removal of the edit CSS option.

On an other side, the spreadsheet editor seems really powerful. It does what I need for now, and I hope it’ll continue so.

I have an IBM X2 server with a hardware RAID handled by an LSI card (SAS1064ET PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS) and running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid. I needed to monitor my RAID status and searched a lot on the web but I finally got it.

Getting email reports on status change

First we need to get the kernel module to load at boot. It get achieved by editing /etc/modules and adding mptctl to the end of that file. Then reboot your server. After reboot, mpt-status -p command should work.

Today I faced a problem. I am building a website for a customer using WordPress. This web site is huge, about 200 pages in a hierarchical organization. I came to the point where I needed a custom menu. I didn’t need the “Home” link and some other pages to show. And I needed some other menu customizations. Continue reading Auto-populate nav menu with sub-pages